A Pickpocket’s Tale
A great longread about the world’s best pickpocket, who is so good that neuroscientists and the military study him to learn about human attention.
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A great longread about the world’s best pickpocket, who is so good that neuroscientists and the military study him to learn about human attention.
I couldn’t think of a more brilliant piece of inspiration to plunge into the new year with than this. An essay based on a lecture at the US Military Academy at West Point in 2009. It’s about leadership, in general, not in the military, and about how leadership is not about being on top, not about excelling, not about leading the pack, but first and foremost about thinking. About taking the time and enduring the solitude that are prerequisite to being able to think. My favourite quote from an essay filled with quotes worth highlighting: “I find for myself that my first thought is never my best thought. My first thought is always someone else’s.”
How desperate a situation do you need to be in to consider killing and eating your friend to survive? Read this article and you will know. This a captivating and gruelling story of three teenagers who were lost in the Pacific Ocean for an incredible 51 days. A travel to the abysses of humanity that started with a bottle of Vodka.
Make sense of what’s happening, and imagine what could be.
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